david brown the president of thomson reuters ip solution. a lot of u.s. companies, a lot of south korean companies, one country surprisingly missing. >> that is correct. china, actually is missing from the list this year. realistically, part of the index that we created to identify the most prolific indicators in the world is based on a proprietary methodology that, in essence, also rewards global friday. if you have an innovation that has value, then it should be covered throughout the world. chinese innovators do not tend to file outside of the country. tracy: that is what it is. they are keeping it all to themselves. we have been talking about that apple, samsung patent war lately. it has to be the people, too, right? >> sure. from an innovation standpoint, there are lots of ways to innovate. we felt we could use intellectual property information and financial data to correlate who is successfully innovating and what result is coming from a. we are focused on the tangible income. tracy: a lot of american companies all made the list for the first time t